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History of Computers

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is the oldest tool for calculation?

a)

Slide rule

b)

Analytical Engine

c)

Abacus

d)

Online Calculators

2.

Who is called the 'Father of the Modern Computers'?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Charles Babbage

3.

What is the name of this early calculating device?

a)

Pascaline

b)

Napier's Bone

c)

Slide Rule

d)

Abacus

4.

Which of the following computer was designed by Charles Babbage for general purpose?

a)

UNIVAC

b)

ENIAC

c)

Laptop

d)

Analytical Engine

5.

What is the name of the main component used in the computers of the first generation?

a)

Vaccume tube

b)

Integrated circuit

c)

microprocessors

d)

Transistors

6.

The first computer with a single-circuit board and ROM

a)

UNIVAC1

b)

ENIAC

c)

Apple II

7.

Who wrote world's first program which helped in the development of better computers?

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Steve Jobs

d)

Tim Berners Lee

8.

ENIAC was built by which of the following countries

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

USA

d)

India

9.

Which of the following generation does this computer belong to?

a)

First Generation

b)

Second Generation

c)

Third Generation

d)

Fourth Generation

10.

Which was the calculating device invented by a French Mathematician for his father?

a)

Pascaline

b)

Abacus

c)

Stepped Reckoner

d)

None of these

11.

Who invented the calculator for the first time?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Ada Lovelace

d)

Charles Babbage

12.

Who invented the Stepped Reckoner?

a)

Gottfried W. Leibniz

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Howard H. Aiken

d)

Thomas de Colmar